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Mongolian President invites State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Mongolia

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New budget to focus on development, U Htin Kyaw

MyanMar’s Finan-cial Commission held its first meeting in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday, with Presi-dent U Htin Kyaw addressing the crowd and stressing the need for the new government to bring for-ward a constitution that focuses on national reconciliation, internal peace and democratic federalism, vowing to effectively spend the budgets on higher living standards and economic growth.

The meeting discussed the

Serve the interests of your country: Foreign minister Daw aung San Suu Kyi to ambassadorsMiNisTer for Foreign Affairs Daw Aung san suu Kyi met with Myanmar ambassadors from the Asian region in her office yester-day urging them to serve the inter-ests of the country and protect the interests of their fellow citizens

abroad. The Foreign Minister put an emphasis on developing inter-national relations in Myanmar’s neighborhood, urging ambassa-dors to work harder for the suc-cess in development tasks.

“Public support is central to

the success of the foreign policy, and the successful foreign policy will in turn contribute to public benefits,” said the Foreign Min-ister.

18 Myanmar ambassadors were called to Myanmar from sin-

gapore, Laos, Cambodia, Malay-sia, Philippines, indonesia, Thai-land, Brunei, sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, india, Nepal, south Korea, Japan, south Africa and israel.

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2016-2017 budget approved by the previous government and an amendment of the ’16-’17 budget to be submitted to the parliament for approval. The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw passed the Union Budget Law at its 33rd regular session last year, with the president say-ing that the previous government drew up its budget depending on its cabinet structure.

“Our new government, with its 22 ministries, needs to retune the budget for 2016-17 fiscal year

in line with changing trends,” President U Htin Kyaw said. The Financial Commission has the re-sponsibility to introduce a budget bill and send it to parliament for approval.

President U Htin Kyaw prom-ised increased spending on educa-tion, health and social welfare to ensure more human resources, adding that development policies would be focused on the imple-mentation of rural development, electrification, poverty alleviation

and infrastructural development.A 5% commercial tax placed

on mobile top cards has gathered K7.5 billion (Us$6.3m) revnue with the President saying that the tax will be spent on sectors that directly contribute to public inter-ests.

“The country’s revenues be-long to the people. The responsi-bility of the government is just to manage it. How the budgets are allotted shows what is on the gov-ernment’s top agenda,” said Presi-

dent U Htin Kyaw, he also pointed out the need for greater transpar-ency in budget allocation and use calling for systematic supervision of the spending.

As Vice Chairman of the Fi-nancial Commission, Vice Pres-ident U Myint swe said that the new budget included expenditures for the Ministry of state Counsel-lor’s Office and the Ministry of ethnic Affairs with expenditures for the ministries being cut by 2%.

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president U Htin Kyaw delivers an address at the meeting of Financial Commission in Nay pyi taw. Photo: MNA

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The Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar has agreed to the appointment of Dr. Israr hussain as Ambassa-dor extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.

Dr. Israr hussain was born in 1964. he holds a Degree of MBBS. he joined Pakistan’s Foreign Service in 1992. From 1994 to 2009, he served in various capacities in the titles and in Pakistan’s embassies in Saudi Arabia, Poland and Singapore. From 2009 to 2012, he served as a director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan. he has been serving as Minister in the high Commission for Pakistan in London since January 2013. he is married.

Ministry of Foreign AffairsNay Pyi Taw

Dated: 16th June 2016

Union Supreme Court, Federal Court of Australia ink MoU on Judicial CooperationThe Supreme Court of the Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Judicial Cooperation with the Federal Court of Australia in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.

During the signing ceremo-ny, Chief Justice U Tun Tun Oo and Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia Mr. James Leslie Bain Allsop, AO of the Federal Court of Australia, inked the MoU.

In accordance with the

MoU the two sides have agreed to develop work programmes aimed at allowing for the suc-cessful implementation of My-anmar’s Judiciary Strategic Plan to upgrade the services of courts across the country.

Next, a Seminar on Leader-ship and Change Management was held followed by discus-sions on yearly implementation of the work programmes in ac-cordance with the MoU. — My-anmar News Agency

Four Defense Services Personnel Region/State Hluttaw representatives substitutedUNION election Commission announced yesterday that four Defense Services Personnel Region/State hluttaw repre-sentatives nominated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Defense Services in the second multi-party general elections held on 8 November 2015 were substituted.

According to the UeC, Captain hlwan Moe Aung (BC 36312) was substituted

with Captain Thein htaik (BC 54385) in Sagaing Region hlut-taw, Major Kaung Thant Kyaw (BC 35906) with Major Aung Myat Min (BC 27919) and Ma-jor Aung Ko Myint (Air 2822) with Major Officiating Kyaw Aung (Air 2243) in Yangon Region hluttaw, and Major Aung Naing Tun (BC 31258) with Major Khin hla Win (BC 39322) in Shan State hluttaw. — Myanmar News Agency

Two Defense Services Personnel Pyithu Hluttaw representatives substituted

UNION election Commission announced yesterday that two Defense Services Personnel Pyithu hluttaw representatives nominated by the Command-er-in-Chief of the Defense Ser-vices in the second multi-party general elections held on 8 No-vember 2015 were substituted.

According to the UeC, Lt-Col Thein Tun Tin (BC 27105) was substituted with Lt-Col Myo Win hlaing (BC 20784) and Major Ye Wint htet (BC 34589) was substituted with Brig-Gen Win Ko Ko (BC16561). — Myanmar News Agency

UNION Minister for Labour, Immigration and Population U Thein Swe held talks with res-ident representative of the UN-hCR in Yangon Mr Giuseppe de Vincentiis yesterday regard-ing efforts to bring about stabil-

ity and development in Rakhine State.

During the meeting at the ministry in Nay Pyi Taw the two representatives also discussed measures being taken to secure a path to cit-

izenship for locals in the state and plans for opening train-ing courses for labourers and cooperation between the ministry and the UNhCR in Ra-khine State.— Myanmar News Agency

Labour, Immigration and PopulationMinistry, UNHCR cooperate for development in Rakhine State

Union Minister for Labour, Immigration and Population U Thein Swe holding talks with resident repre-sentative of the UNHCR Mr Giuseppede Vincentiis. Photo: MNA

MONGOLIA prefers an intimate relationship to a business-orient-ed relationship, said Mongolian President Mr. Tsakhiagiin el-begdorj at the opening of the Mongolia-Myanmar CeO Con-ference in Nay Pyi Taw yester-day.

In his address, the President said that he visited Myanmar with the aim of strengthening bilateral ties and boosting eco-nomic cooperation, pledging to join hands with Myanmar busi-nesspeople in trust.

Likewise, Union Minister for Commerce Dr Than Myint stressed the need for the pro-motion of trade and investment between the two countries, say-

ing that Myanmar’s challenges faced in technology and infra-structure development will give Mongolia an opportunity.

According to the Union minister, Myanmar exported textile worth US$0.37 million to Mongolia last FY while medi-cines, tyres, soft drinks, comput-ers and related accessories worth US$0.002 million were import-ed over the 2015-2016 FY when the two countries began bilateral trade.

During the conference, those present held discussions on ways and means to attract more investment in the sectors of electricity and energy, com-munication, transport and oil

and gas. Moreover, a paper reading

session on banking, mining, communication, transport and investment sectors was held with the participation of experts and officials from ministries con-cerned and private sector repre-sentatives of the two countries.

Next, the establishment of the Mongolia-Myanmar Busi-ness Council was announced fol-lowing the signing of an MoU on economic Cooperation between Mongolia National Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Republic of the Union of Myan-mar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry.— My-anmar News Agency

MoU on Economic Cooperation inked, Mongolia-Myanmar Business Council launched

Mongolian President Mr. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj and participants of CEO Conference Mongolia-Myanmar Business Council pose for documentary photos. Photo: MNA

Appointment of Ambassdor agreed on

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Mongolian President invites State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Mongolia

STATE Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi held talks with Mongolian President Mr. Tsakh-iagiin Elbegdorj on THE ongoing peace process and national recon-ciliation, the rule of law and dem-ocratic transition in Myanmar at the Presidential Palace in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday.

During the meeting the Mon-golian President invited the State Counsellor to visit Mongolia for a second time (her first visit was in 2013) and attend the upcom-ing 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) in his country.

The two representatives also discussed further cooperation in the sectors of natural resources and environmental conservation, mining, cultural heritage preser-vation and electric power in addi-tion to the responsibilities and ac-countability of media in building democracy. Also present at the meeting were Union Ministers U Kyaw Tint Swe, Dr Pe Myint, Thura U Aung Ko, U Ohn Win and U Kyaw Win, the Mongolian Ambassador to Myanmar, dele-gation members and officials.—Myanmar News Agency

Myanmar, Mongolia hope for better relations through cultural exchangePRESIDENT U Htin Kyaw held talks with Mongolian President Mr. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj on boosting bilateral relations and friendship between the nations through cultural exchanges yes-terday.

The President received the Mongolian President and party on a working visit to Myanmar at the Credential Halls of the Pres-idential Palace in Nay Pyi Taw.

During the meeting, the two Presidents also discussed further cooperation in the trade, mining, education, environmental conser-vation and tourism sectors.

The Mongolian President in-vited the President and the State

Counsellor to visit Mongolia and attend the 11th ASEM Summit.

Also present were Union Ministers U Kyaw Tint Swe, Dr Pe Myint, Thura U Aung Ko, U Ohn Win and U Kyaw Win, the Mongolian Ambassador to My-anmar and delegation members and officials.

After the meeting, the two Presidents witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Under-standing on cultural cooperation between the Myanmar’s Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture and the Mongolian Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

In the evening, President U Htin Kyaw and his wife Daw Su

Su Lwin hosted a dinner in hon-our of the delegation led by the Mongolian President at the Presi-dential Palace.

Also present at the dinner were State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Vice-Presidents U Myint Swe and U Henry Van Thio, the Union ministers, the Governor of the Central Bank of Myanmar and officials.

The Mongolian President’s second visit to Myanmar coincid-ed with the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between two countries and is his first visit to Myanmar since the new government took office. — Myanmar News Agency

New budget to focus on development, U Htin Kyaw>> From page 1

U Myint Swe noted that most of the budget remains un-changed. Highlighting that the lustrous border fence budget re-mains untouched, with the Min-istry of Home Affairs responsible for the construction project at the Myanmar-Bangladesh and My-anmar-India borders.

Vice President U Henry Van

Thio, also Vice Chairman of the Financial Commission, said that over K1.6bn (US$1.4m) is allo-cated to states and regions in the upcoming 2016-17 fiscal year. President U Htin Kyaw suggest-ed the publication of a Citizen’s Budget journal after the amend-ment bill of the Union Budget Law 2016 won parliamentary ap-proval.—Myanmar News Agency

>> From page 1Political Affairs Depart-

ment Director General U Kyaw Zeya described the meeting as productive, saying that the

ambassadors briefed the diffi-culties and requirements they encountered in the line of duty. U Kyaw Zeya expects a sim-ilar meeting with Myanmar

ambassadors from Europe, but gave no specific details as to when or where the meeting will occur. —Myanmar News Agency

Union Minister for Foreign Affairs Daw Aung San Suu Kyi speaks to ambassadors. Photo: MNA

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs attends Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in ChinaMINISTER of State for Foreign Affairs U Kyaw Tin attended the Special ASEAN-China For-eign Ministers’ Meeting in Yuxi, Yunnan Province, China on 13-14 June.

The meeting was aimed at holding discussions on prepara-tions for the 25th Anniversary for ASEAN-China Commemo-rative Summit in September and exchanging views on issues of mutual interest in the region.

The special meeting was co-chaired by Singaporean Minister

for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan and Chinese For-eign Minister Wang Yi.

Also present at the meeting were Ministers for Foreign Af-fairs from ASEAN countries and ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh.

During the meeting, they held talks on progress of ASE-AN-China dialogue relations during the past 25 years and dis-cussed future directions and co-operation in priority areas.

Moreover, ASEAN Foreign

Ministers exchanged views with the Chinese counterpart on full and effective implementation of the declaration on the conduct of parties in the South China Sea and early conclusion of a code of conduct based on consensus.

The meeting also focused on upgrading the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area with a view to reaching US$ 1 trillion in bilat-eral trade and $150 billion for investment between ASEAN and China by 2020.—Myanmar News Agency

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President U Htin Kyaw welcomes Mongolian President Mr. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj in Nay Pyi Taw. Photo: MNA

State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi holds talks with Mongolian President Mr. Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj. Photo: MNA

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Fruits Association re-quested u Kyaw Win, Minister for Planning and Finance to review 2% tax payment on the fruit trucks on 13 June.

“income tax was paid by the famers in the name of companies in border areas.

We want to request the minister to review the 2% tax payment on the fruit trucks because some-times we carried just 50 tonnes even though they levied taxes on 70 tonnes, said u Kyaw thu, sec-retary of Fruits Associa-tion. Although fruits and flowers are tax free, every citizen must pay tax if he earns a monthly income of over Ks four lakh.

Farmers paid the money in the name of the companies. Ever year, the companies are laundering money in billion kyats.

But, the farmers do not have any document for tax payment. some of the farmers were offered lower price on the fruits. Also, they have to pay the income tax. Also, they have to hire the trucks for carrying fruits, he add-ed. Watermelon growers pay the tax to Customs Department when they export the fruits to Muse market.

union minister an-swered to the media that some cases of tax can be reviewed whereas some cases of tax cannot be re-viewed.

Currently, Muse de-pots export watermelons and mangoes to China. this year, they have al-ready exported six-lakh tonnes of watermelons and fourty thousand tonnes of mangoes.— Kay Zu

A fire started from an over-heated electric breaker on Kin-malin Kyun road, Pathein town on 14 June. the accident hap-pened around 11:15am at the small cloth factory of u Arr shin alias u tin Maung Latt when his worker Maung Zaw, 36, switched on the breaker, which was overheated and caused elec-tric short-circuiting. then, the fire quickly got out of control and burned the cloth warehouse. the fire was brought under control around 11:55am by over 60 fire-men with eleven fire engines. The police have taken action against Maung Zaw.— Pathein –Hla Kyi

Overheated breaker causes outbreak of fire

A COMBiNED investigation team comprising officers and staff from Dagon Myothit seik-kan township confiscated mar-ijuana weighing 3 grams from the home of one u taung Nyunt, 67, on Min Nandar road, ward 20, south Dagon on 12 June. Ko Kyaw Win, 25, and tun tun Oo, 31, were found together with the host. Police also seized an as-sortment of knives, swords and weapons from the home.

Police have filed charges against the suspects under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotrop-ic substances Law.—Kyaw Soe Moe (Minglar Taung Nyunt)

Marijuana andweapons seizedin Dagon Myothit (south)

A COMBiNED investigation team comprising officers and staff from Loikaw township seized yaba from a vehicle near Linphonelay village on Linphonelay- Loikaw road in Loikaw township on Mon-day. Acting on a tip-off, the police searched a vehicle being driven by one saw Yan Naing thein and found 12 yaba pills.

According to a connect-ed investigation the police searched the home of one Angello in an industrial zone

ward, Loikaw township and confiscated 107 yaba pills. One thomas Khun was found together with the host. Police further discovered 3,310 yaba pills on one than Payae who came to Angello’s house while the police were present.

On the same day, a com-bined investigation team com-prising officers and staff from Maisat township discovered 7,580 yaba pills from the home of Kyak tan in Ma Hone Leik village, Mai sat township.— Myanmar Police Force

Yaba seized in Loikaw and Maisat

THAI authorities confiscated over 140,000 yaba pills from six Myanmar people at the thai- Myanmar Friendship Bridge, Mae sai town, thailand Northern part on Monday.

Acting on a tip-off, mem-bers of the thai police searched a vehicle en route to thailand from Myanmar being driven by one Kyaw Min tun, 34,

with five passengers on board and seized 140,400 yaba pills hidden in the vehicle. Ma Nan Houn, 31, managed to escape from the scene while thai po-lice were searching the vehicle. Thai police have filed charges against them under the Nar-cotic Drugs and Psychotropic substances Law.— Myint Moe (Tachilk)

over 140,000 yaba pills seizedin Mai sai, Thailand

A new bridge is to be constructed linking the two Mandalay region towns of Kyaukse and Pyin u Lwin. the reinforced con-crete bridge will be located in Patheingyi township in Mandalay region and is to stretch 660ft by 30ft.

After the project is complete in March 2017, locals can easily travel be-tween the two towns passing over Doakhtawady river via ‘No.2 district-to-district road.’

“the new bridge will help locals reduce their travelling time between the two towns,” said an official from the project.

“Normally, Kyaukse residents visit Pyin u Lwin through Mandalay. After completion the bridge, we will directly go to the scenic hill town in a short period of

Doakhtawady Bridge set to ease transport woes

time.” Construction works began 6 June at a cost of Ks2bn (us$1.6m) funded by the Mandalay region Government.

u Ye Hsint, who re-

sides in shwesayan Village situated near the project area said, “We are facing a massive transportation bar-rier due to the lack of trans-port facilities.”

He added, “We usually go over to the other side of the river by boat, but when we want to return at night it can be hard to rent one.”—Aung Thant Khaing

Review of 2% tax payment on the fruit trucks requested

The scene of the outbreak of fire. Photo: Pathein-hla Kyi

U Thaung Nyunt, Ko Kyaw Win and Tun Tun Oo. Photo: Kyaw Soe Moe (Mingalar taung nyunt)

Yaba seized in Loikaw and Maisat. Photo: MPF

New Doakhtawady Bridge is being built. Photo: aung thant Khaing

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CHDB to offer low-interest rate loans for affordable apartmentsConstruction and Housing De-velopment Bank (CHDB) has been negotiating with Japan, South Korea and China concern-ing low interest rate loans to al-low for those in the middle-class income bracket to purchase affordable apartments costing under Ks10million ($US8,395), according to Myawady.

U Win Khaing, Union Min-ister for Construction said that low-cost housing blocks would contain over 8,000 apartments each costing below Ks10mil-

lion and that they will be built in as little as two years. CHDB is seeking guidance on loan pro-cedures to help distribute 10,000 loans.

“The construction of hous-ing will be implemented within the government’s budget,” said CHDB Director, U Win Zaw.

CHDB will give priority to those who do not own a house offering low interest rate loans. CHDB will also offer loans to those living in apartments that require renovation.—200

India to import pulses from MyanmarA HigH level decision from the indian government has made plans to import more pulses from Myanmar and to release a buffer stock in order to open the market as food prices in india climb, ac-cording to the Economic Times.

india is the largest buyer of beans and pulses from Myanmar, around 70% of Myanmar’s total exports went to India this finan-cial year. However, demand from

China and Viet Nam is expected to surge past india soon. Myan-mar generates around US$1bn from exporting beans and pulses annually.

Myanmar is expected to ship over 10,000 tonnes of green gram to European markets this finan-cial year, a spokesperson from the Myanmar Pulses, Beans and Sesame Seeds Merchants Associ-ation said.

it is estimated that the export of pulses is likely to increase in the future as the EU has officially accepted exports of pulses from Myanmar.

With reduced demand from indian merchants, local pea mer-chants and pea growers are brac-ing for the difficulty as the local price has dropped to K300,000 (US$250) a tonne last harvest.—GNLM

YGN Airport Customs duty earns over Ks100million in MayYANgON’S duty-free cus-tom stores earned over Ks100m (US$87,000) from passengers entering Yangon internation-al Airport (YiA) during May, according to the Customs De-partment at YiA. Duty-free cus-toms is up in May this year by Ks30m (US$25,000) compared to this time last year. Ks70m (US$58,000) was received from

duty-free in May 2015. Currently, the passenger ar-

rival at YiA is 37,000 compared to the average count last year, departures from YiA see roughly 30,000 passengers a week.

Myanmar has seen a record increase of tourists and domestic travellers since opening up to the world in 2011. international ar-rivals has increased from 816,319

in 2011 to 4,861,020 in 2015, ac-cording to the Ministry of Hotel and Tourism website. Yet, those in the industry contest the data provided from the MoHT.

Duty-free prices are levied on commodity prices in accord-ance with international rates, but airports vary due to the demand from the airport and the amount sold.—200

Scottish delegation eyes success in Myanmar

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THE first Scottish oil and gas delegation met with international and local operators in Myanmar from 4 to 9 June led by Scottish Development international, the group plans to bring other dele-gations to Myanmar in the future.

The delegation also met with Myanmar’s Minister of Electric Power and Energy, U Pe Zin Tun during last weeks visit. The delegation met with a num-ber of the leading international oil & gas operators currently active in Myanmar including; Total, Statoil, ENi, Shell, Bg group as well as leading My-anmar company Parami Energy group.

“Three Scottish companies - Wood group, ASCO and Bibby Offshore are all actively seeking opportunities in the Myanmar market and last week’s visited highlighted a number of po-tential opportunities for them,” Neil Mcinnes told The global New Light of Myanmar, head of Southeast Asia and Austral-asia at Scottish Development international. “The three Scot-tish companies - Wood group, ASCO and Bibby Offshore are all actively seeking opportuni-ties in the Myanmar market and last week’s visited highlighted a number of potential opportuni-ties for them,” said Mr. Mcinnes

Adding, “They will contin-ue to engage with the Ministry and with the Oil & gas industry in Myanmar to identify how they can support activity in Myanmar, which we hope will lead to new investment in the future.”

Scotland boasts over 2000 supply chain companies in the oil and gas sector. Scotland’s Development international is working with the United King-dom Trade and investment and

the British Chamber of Com-merce to find ways to work with Myanmar’s oil and gas sector Mr. Mcinnes told The global New Light of Myanmar.

During the visit the delegation met with education and training providers along with the Ministry of Education, eight of Myanmar’s training providers are accredited by the Scottish Qualifications Au-thority.

“Edinburgh’s Heriot Watt University is currently offering an online MBA program through a partnership with Myanmar compa-ny Strategy First. given Scotland’s strengths in vocational and univer-sity education, this is another sec-tor we’re keen to explore further collaboration,” said Mr. Mcinnes. Leading the Myanmar delegation was Dr. Lena Wilson, chief exec-utive of the Scottish Enterprises and Chair of Scotland’s Energy Jobs Taskforce. Dr. Wilson also launched the Myanmar Profes-sional Women’s Business Net-work at an event attended by 50 of Myanmar’s leading businesswom-en, where Dr. Wilson highlighted the importance of full female par-ticipation in the global economy.

“Scotland and Myanmar have strong historic connections going right back to the 19th century when Scottish owned Burmah Oil Com-pany became the first company to drill for oil in the country in 1886,” said Dr. Wilson in a 1 June press release. Dr. Wilson also noted that, “Myanmar now stands at exciting phase of its own oil and gas devel-opment – much like Aberdeen did in the 1970s - with huge natural resources to capitalise on but to grow its local industry, it will need access to technology, skills and expertise across the whole supply chain from seismic surveying and engineering design right through to project management, health and safety and training and education.”

A farmer tosses peals into the win to remove sant and other impurrties before transport. Photo: Aye Min Soe

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (6th R) and other participants pose for a group picture ahead of the Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Yuxi, southwest China’s Yunnan Province, on 14 June, 2016. Wang and Singapore’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan co-chaired the meeting here Tuesday. Singapore serves as the country coordinator for China-ASEAN relations. Photo: Xinhua

ASEAN countries retract statement expressing concerns on South China SeaKUALA LUMPUR — Southeast Asian countries withdrew a statement that expressed the region’s deep concerns over rising ten-sions in the disputed South China Sea, where China has been involved in terri-torial disputes.

The strongly-worded statement by the Associa-tion of Southeast Asian Na-tions (ASEAN), released by the Malaysian foreign ministry, did not name Chi-na directly but warned against raising tensions in the contested waters, where Beijing has been building artificial islands and in-creasing its military pres-ence.

“We expressed our se-rious concerns over recent and ongoing developments, which have eroded trust and confidence, increased tensions and which may have the potential to under-mine peace, security and stability in the South China Sea,” said the statement, which was issued follow-ing a meeting in the Chi-nese city of Kunming be-tween ASEAN and China’s foreign ministers.

But just hours later, a Malaysian ministry spokes-woman recalled the state-ment, saying “urgent amendments” needed to be made and an updated ver-sion would be distributed.

However, no updated joint statement was later is-sued and the spokeswoman said countries would now issue individual statements.

China lays historical claim to most of the South China Sea, with its Nine Dash line stretching deep into the maritime heart of Southeast Asia, covering

hundreds disputed islands and reefs, rich fishing grounds and oil and gas de-posits. The Philippines, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims over the region, through which trillions of dollars in ship-borne trade passes every year.

Ian Storey, an analyst at Singapore’s ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute, said the re-traction of the initial state-ment showed the lack of unity between ASEAN members on the South Chi-na Sea disputes.

“The initial statement repeated ASEAN’s existing concerns over China’s artifi-cial island building and the militarization of the dispute, but also countered China’s position that the dispute should be settled by the par-ties directly concerned and that it is not an issue be-tween ASEAN and China.”

“Perhaps this proved too much for some of the member states and the state-

ment was withdrawn,” Sto-rey said.

The ASEAN-China meeting was held ahead of a ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague on a case brought by the Philippines contesting Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea.

China has refused to recognised the case and says all disputes should be re-solved through bilateral talks. The case has become the center of an international diplomatic arm wrestle, with the United States and its al-lies insisting on internation-al law be obeyed and China saying it has widespread support for its position, in-cluding from some ASEAN members. Viet Nam’s Min-istry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement on the Kunming meeting, made no reference to the earlier ASEAN state-ment but echoed its con-cerns over increased mili-tary build-up in the South China Sea, “especially the

large-scale accretion and embellishment and con-struction of the reefs, the militarization of the artifi-cial islands and actions of sovereignty claims that are not based on international law.”

Singapore and Indone-sia, meanwhile, took a softer tone calling on ASEAN and China to “continue working together to maintain the peace and stability of the South China Sea.”

An Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman said the initial statement was a “me-dia guideline” which had been prepared for a planned press conference for the conclusion of the meeting.

“However because of the meeting dynamics where the meeting extended a few hours past schedule, the press conference was can-celed and a number of ASE-AN FM had to leave imme-diately,” Armanatha Nasir, told Reuters by text mes-sage.—Reuters

CANBERRA — Unfavourable weather con-ditions are having severe impact on the search of the missing Malaysian Airline flight MH370 in the south-ern Indian Ocean, which may last till August instead of June as it was previously anticipated, the Joint Agen-cy Coordination Centre for the Search of MH370 (JACC) said in its weekly report on Wednesday. “Re-cent poor weather condi-tions have severely impact-ed search operations,” the report said.

“It is now anticipated it may take until around August to complete the 120,000 square kilometres, but this will be influenced by weather conditions over the coming months, which may worsen.”

JACC said winter weather conditions contin-ued to bring rough seas and strong winds to the search area, severely impacting

search operations.For the three vessels

conducting the underwater search, Fugro Discovery is conducting underwater search operations as weath-er permits. Fugro Equator departed for Fremantle on 11 June, and arrived in port Wednesday to conduct re-supply.

It is anticipated the vessel will depart for the return voyage to the search area Thursday. Weather conditions allowed the Dong Hai Jiu 101 to re-commence underwater search operations on 13 June. In response to the lat-est discoveries of suspect-ed MH370 debris in Mada-gascar off the east coast of Africa and Kangaroo Is-land off the coast of South Australia, the JACC report confirmed that “arrange-ments are being made for this debris to be examined to establish if it is related to MH370”.—Xinhua

Indonesia detains hundreds of Papuans ahead of minister’s visitJAKARTA — Indonesia on Wednesday briefly detained more than 1,000 pro-inde-pendence demonstrators in its eastern province of Pap-ua, ahead of a visit by a top security official to look into claims of human rights vio-lations.

Papua has been gripped by a long-running and often violent separatist conflict since it was incorporated into Indonesia after a wide-ly-criticised UN-backed ref-erendum in 1969. Dutch colonial rule ended in 1963.

Security forces still

maintain a strong presence and are often seen as taking a heavy-handed approach to peaceful demonstrations, activists say.

The protesters took to the streets in Sentani, near Papua’s provincial capital, to demand that an independ-ent body conduct human rights investigations rather than the Indonesian govern-ment. They were detained for protesting without a per-mit.

“We localised them so their movements were limit-ed,” said Papua police

spokesman Patridge Ren-warin. “We did not arrest anyone.”

The police action was backed by Atmadji Sumark-dijo, an aide of Chief Secu-rity Minister Luhut Pand-jaitan, who is set to visit the province on Thursday.

Asked about the police response at a time when President Joko Widodo wants to reduce tension in the region, Sumarkdijo said, “It doesn’t mean you can do anything you want. Rallies need police permits.”

The protesters also

called for an internationally monitored referendum for independence.

Widodo faces an uphill battle in attaining his key goal of easing the tension in Papua, aimed at through measures such as stepping up investment, freeing polit-ical prisoners, and resolving cases of human rights viola-tions.

Although there were no reports of violence, activists fear growing numbers of de-tentions over the last six weeks could change the pic-ture.—Reuters

MH370 priority area search may end in August due to bad weather: JACC

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Australian casino firm Crown may split assets as cushion against Macau slumpSYDNEY — Australian casino firm Crown Resorts Ltd may split most of its domestic assets off into a new listed company, seek-ing to cushion those operations from the slide in business at Asian gambling hub Macau which has hammered its shares.

In a statement on Wednes-day, Australia’s No.1 casino company said it’s considering setting up a new listed property trust for its Melbourne and Perth hotels, while demerging its inter-national investments into a sepa-rate listed firm. It didn’t say how much the businesses might be worth.

The move comes after months of speculation about ma-jority-owner James Packer’s plans for the company after Aus-tralia’s third-richest man stepped down as chairman in August. As the firm suffered in the Macau downturn and invested away from its core gaming business, shares tumbled 17 per cent in that time, squeezing the firm’s market value to A$8.2 billion ($6 bil-lion).

“We believe that Crown Re-sorts’ extremely high-quality Australian resorts are not being

fully valued and the Crown Re-sorts share price has been highly correlated to the performance of its investment in Macau,” Crown chairman Robert Rankin said in the statement.

In February, Crown reported a 35 per cent slump in first-half profit due to a drop in Chinese high-rollers at its Macau casinos.

The Macau venture — Mel-co Crown — accounted for more than 30 per cent of the company’s total net profit for the year-ended June 2015.

In May this year Crown Re-sorts lowered its stake in Melco Crown to about 27 per cent from 34 per cent previously. On Wednesday, Crown Resorts said that stake was worth A$2.7 bil-lion, and said it continued to have “great faith in the long-term de-velopment of the Macau market”.

The company said it planned to hold a news conference on its plans at 08.30 local time on Thursday (21.30 GMT Wednes-day). In a move likely to be wel-comed by investors, Crown Re-sorts also revised its dividend policy to boost cash returns to shareholders, offering to pay 100 per cent of net profit effective im-

mediately. The new dividend policy will not alter its intention to maintain a strong balance sheet and credit profile, it added. Crown Resorts is currently rated two levels above junk grade by the three major credit ratings firms. Investors have grown con-cerned about the company’s move away from non-gaming as-sets, including last October’s $100 million purchase of 20 per cent of the Nobu restaurant chain part-owned by movie star Robert De Niro.

In May, Australian fund manager Colonial First State ex-ited its investment in Crown Re-sorts citing concerns about gov-ernance and board independence, as well as the investment in Nobu.

“I suspect some sharehold-ers would be concerned to under-stand the strategy of the compa-ny, now that it seems to be diverting capital to things that bear no relationship to what it has done previously,” said David Green, a consultant at Macau and Australia based Newpage Con-sulting, speaking to Reuters be-fore Wednesday’s announce-ment.—Reuters

Tokyo Gov Masuzoe submits resignation over political funds scandal

Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe arrives at the metropolitan government building on 15 June 2016. Masuzoe has decided to step down over his alleged misuse of political funds, a ruling Liberal Democratic Party source said the same day. Photo: Kyodo News

tee, apparently prompting the gov-ernor to decide to step down.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Electoral Management Committee said it is arranging to hold an elec-tion to pick Masuzoe’s successor on 31 July or 7 August. It is sup-posed to take place within 50 days after the assembly chairman noti-fies the committee of the gover-nor’s resignation, which is likely to take place next Tuesday.

The 67-year-old governor has been under fire for costly business trips and for using political funds for purposes which an investiga-tion, requested by Masuzoe, found “improper” but not illegal.

Assembly members have stepped up pressure on Masuzoe to leave the post, with many deeming the governor’s explanations in an intensive question-and-answer ses-sion earlier this week unsatisfacto-ry. But the former welfare minister Tuesday requested the steering committee grant him a “moratori-um” to allow him to stay in the post at least until the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August, citing a possi-ble negative impact on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Masuzoe assumed the post af-ter his predecessor, Naoki Inose, resigned in December 2013 for in-appropriately receiving money from a hospital chain operator. The former LDP lawmaker’s main rival was Morihiro Hosokawa, a former prime minister.—Kyodo News

TOKYO — Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe on Wednesday submitted his resignation over a political funds scandal amid mounting pres-sure from assembly members, an assembly source said.

The move came as the Tokyo assembly was set to pass a no-con-fidence motion against Masuzoe filed by all major assembly groups later Wednesday.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which supported Masuzoe in the gubernatorial election in Febru-ary 2014, joined other groups in proposing the motion at a meeting of the assembly’s steering commit-

China jails son of former domestic security boss for 18 years over graftBEIJING — A Chinese court on Wednesday jailed the son of for-mer domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang for 18 years on cor-ruption charges, the official news agency Xinhua said.

The report on Zhou Bin, who had business interests in the ener-gy sector, came hours after a

court jailed Zhou’s wife, former state television journalist Jia Xiaoye, for nine years, also for graft.

Once one of China’s most powerful officials, the elder Zhou was at the centre of the biggest corruption scandals in more than six decades.—Reuters

Indonesian president nominates antiterrorism chief to head national policeJAKARTA — President Joko Widodo has nominated Indo-nesia’s anti-terrorism agency chief to lead the country’s po-lice force, House of Represent-atives speaker said on Wednes-day.

“I received a letter from the president saying that Tito Karnavian is his sole choice to replace Badrodin Haiti,” Ade Komarudin told reporters in Jakarta.

Three months ago, Com-missioner General Tito Kar-navian was promoted to head

the National Counter terrorism Agency (BNPT) just a couple of months after a suicide bombing and gun attack claimed by the Syria-based Is-lamic State terrorist network took place in Jakarta.

The three-star general has an established background in the security forces, especially in the antiterrorism division, including the chief role at the Jakarta police and the National Police’s counter-terrorism unit Densus 88.

Indonesia, which has the

world’s largest Muslim popu-lation, has witnessed numer-ous radicalism bombings in the past 15 years, including the 2002 Bali attacks that murdered 202 people.

Combating terrorist cells across the archipelago has been among President Joko’s main security and defence agenda.

Pending House’s approv-al, Tito is expected to suc-ceed General Badrodin Haiti who will retire in July. —Xinhua

Family of slain hostage say they back Canada ransom policyOTTAWA — The family of a Ca-nadian hostage who was executed by an Islamist militant group in the Philippines said on Tuesday they supported the Canadian govern-ment’s policy of not paying ransom in kidnapping cases.

The Philippines on Tuesday confirmed the death of Robert Hall, who had been held hostage by al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf on a remote southern island with three other people since September 2015. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday condemned the killing, but also said the Canadian govern-ment cannot and will not pay ran-som in such cases because it could encourage additional kidnappings.

“Our family, even in our dark-est hour, agrees wholeheartedly with Canada’s policy of not paying ransom,” the Hall family said in a statement. “We stand with the ide-als that built this country; strength of character, resilience of spirit, and refusal to succumb to the demands of the wretched.”

Hall was taken captive by the militants with three others from an upscale resort on Samal island, hundreds of miles (km) east of Jolo. Another Canadian who was held captive, former mining executive John Ridsdel, was executed by the group in April. A Norwegian man and a Filipina are still being held.—Reuters

Hostages Canadian national Robert Hall (R) and Norwegian national Kjartan Sekkingstad (L) are seen in this undated picture released to local media, in Jolo island in southern Philippines. Photo: ReuteRs

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Putting the student centered approach to work

As a nascent democra-cy, Myanmar is in desperate need of people who are energetic, re-sourceful and dynamic. Dec-ades of poor management has left the country’s education system in tatters. Let bygones be bygones. This situation is not without a cure.

For our education system to move forward and keep abreast of international standards, all stakeholders

must come together to play an active role in creating an education environment where teachers teach and train as students learn and practice. In other words, schools should offer a challenging and stimulating environment in which learning is interest-ing and teaching is gripping.

No doubt, teachers at dif-ferent levels have been famil-iar with the widespread use of the student-centred ap-

proach. simply put, this ap-proach is designed to stimu-late active learning and to engage students. still, some teachers are reluctant to adapt themselves to this trend. They might consider teaching as asking questions, correcting mistakes and grad-ing exams. In fact, teaching is engaging students in the learning process.

It should be noted that no student will be able to devel-

op study skills without being offered the chance to learn and practise. Therefore, teachers need to train stu-dents and help them develop these skills so as to evaluate, assess and analyse what they are learning. In fact, the learner-centred approach provides teachers and stu-dents with the missing link that encourages teamwork and enriches educational ex-perience.

Kyaw Thura

State Owned Public Busessan shweAung

One of the most debated subjects among the public in Yangon is the bad ser-vices of public buses plying in the streets of the city. Public transport in the big cities around the world is essential for tens of thousands of commuters who go to work or travel for personal, so-cial, religious & business matters daily. City authorities plan and operate the public transport ser-vices as smooth as possible. In many countries public bus servic-es & routes have been increased and upgraded using advanced technology to satisfy the in-creased number of users and de-mand for quality and comfort in traveling from point A to point B. In many cities particularly in tropical countries, public buses are upgraded in better seats, con-venient agronomic steps, floor-ing, hand rails which are also children & disabled persons friendly. number of air condi-tioned buses have increased dra-matically. To maximize the space of the roads, double decker buses are also put into service. In some cities such as in Beijing in China the double or triple extended coaches are used to increase the capacity of the bus. The latter however is appropriate for wide roads and less traffic since it is very long, perhaps about 20 to 25 meters, and difficult to turn at the intersections.

In our country public buses in the big cities particularly in Yangon and Mandalay are in ser-vices for many years. But the commuters or customers of the public buses are not satisfied and even frustrated for many prob-lems concerning the public bus

service. As an ordinary citizen like many public bus users, I have been thinking,as many peo-ple do, how to improve the public bus services in our country. I am not a transportation engineer or an expert in public transport planning. However, I have been prompted to contemplate few common solutions though some experts or authorities might not agree for several reasons.

Quality of Buses (hard-ware): As all know the public buses being used in Yangon roads are very old such as crude-ly modified Hino –BM buses of 1960s, second or third hand, used city buses of various makes im-ported from Japan & South Ko-rea and recently imported new buses from China. There is no standardized “make” of the pub-lic buses for example Hino or Isuzu or Volvo or Scania or Hyundai. We see all “makes” of buses from several countries on the road which make difficult in maintenance & repair due to needs for various spare parts and expertise. Most of the current buses are not maintained regular-ly since they are owned by indi-

vidual businessmen who main priority is to squeeze money out of his investment as much as pos-sible. They run the buses non-stop without giving days-off for maintenance, cleaning & repairs. It is known amongbus owners circles as…..(ခိုင်းစါးတယ်). Regular servicing and maintenance are the last priority of the bus own-ers. Therefore we have seen daily several public buses out of order &lying idle on the road making traffic congestion worse. The buses in Yangon are very dirty inside as well as on outside body. They will not wash and clean the buses for many days or even weeks. Thanks to the Ministry of Industry who few years back has successfully modifiedthe original diesel engines into CnG run en-gines. Our country has abundant natural gases and the conversion of diesel engines into Com-pressed natural Gas engines is one of the most successful tech-nical breakthrough. In addition CnG engines produce less car-bon dioxide & carbon monoxide. As a result our city air quality is not as bad as in other cities where diesel engine buses are primarily

employed. Public bus time table: P u b -

lic bus services are generally based on regular operation of transit buses along a route calling at agreed bus stops according to a published public transport time-table. That is not existent in our country. In our country there are no time tables on the bus stops showing which number of the bus is arriving at what time. In many cities at each and every bus stop there is a time table upon which you can check the bus which you are expecting is com-ing to the bus stop. In advanced countries there is a daily standard practice for the commuters to catch the same bus to go to work at the same time& at the same bus stop nearby one’s home. However in a big city like Yan-gon with now notorious traffic congestion, planning bus time ta-ble will have very big challenges. To increase the number of buses on the routes during rush hours may be one clear solution to re-duce the waiting time for the commuters.

no conductor and best ser-vices: Very unpopular & at

times rude behavior of Yangon bus conductors are the subjects of debates & interest of cartoon-ists to create satire , complaining article writers in media and pub-lic speakers in radio & television in our country for many years now. It has been said that work-shops and training were conduct-ed to change for better behavior for the bus spares (conductors are commonly called “spares” in Myanmar). Yet the general pub-lic face the same rude communi-cation from most of the bus con-ductors. Here we need to think for a most effective solution leaping wide stride that “what if we have public buses without “spares” or conductors in Yan-gon?” Oh is it possible? Yes technologically it is possible. In Singapore there are more than 95% of the public buses without conductors. And it works per-fectly.

State owned public buses: What has been mentioned above are few key issues and obstacles in improving public bus service to give satisfaction and peace of mind of the general public. See page 9 >>

Triple coach extended bus.

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>> from page 8The last and most crucial issue is, to me, that currently the buses and routes are owned by the pri-vate businessmen who are grouped under the well-known authority Ma HtaTha and other bodies to provide the bus trans-port services in the city. The transport authorities must have

had very clear, rigid and standard rules & regulations for the public bus transport operation, for sure. But the bus drivers and spares (conductors) are not following to the rules, regulations and stand-ards for their narrow minded gains & benefits which are clear-ly enforced by the owners of the buses. They have only one inter-

est, to make as much money and profit as possible. In the process they race with speed dangerously with other bus, shout at the cus-tomers/commuters at their will, charge more fare than the fixed one, push down the people alight-ing from the bus and pull up the passengers (including young ca-pable girls & women deliberate-

State Owned Public Buses ly), stop the bus in the middle of the road and anywhere they please, contributing to worse traffic jams, so on and on. The solution will be that all public buses will be totally owned by only one authority, for example in Yangon, Ma Hta Tha fully backed by Yangon Region Gov-ernment and Ministry of Trans-port & Communication and the current bus owners (private busi-nessmen) can become the share-holders of the state ownedpublic

company limited Ma HtaTha. State owned public company limited Ma HtaTha’s shares can then be definitely put on sales at Yangon Stock Exchange in near future to raise the required capital to improve quality of buses & services. Ma Hta Tha will then be capable of providing best interna-tional standard buses without conductors to the general public. That is the only solution to solve Yangon public bus transportation woe.

NaY DaR KHue, a school girl in Kaya State is reported to have sat for and passed this school year’s matriculation ex-amination using her feet to take the test alongside able bodied

students. earlier this week the com-

mander and officers of Tatmad-aw eastern Command honoured and encouraged the student, presenting her with cash and

gifts on Monday. The young girl is the daughter of a corpo-ral stationed at Loikaw station in Kaya State. —Office of Com-mander-in-Chief of Defence Services

Girl without arms passes matriculation examination

MYaNMaR’S Public Health Department under the Ministry of Health and Sports (MoHS) will perform a survey of those diagnosed with dengue fever (DF) at general hospitals across Yangon, a MoHS spokesperson said.

The outbreak of dengue fe-ver in Myanmar is common in the monsoon season. In order re-duce DF infections control meas-ures against the disease have are taken across parts of the country.

DF has infected 284 peo-ple since January and May this

year, with four deaths reported, according to the Department of Health.

Last year a total of 32,00 people were believed to have been infected by DF, 3,000 cases occurring in Yangon with over ten deaths reported.

DF, a mosquito-borne viral infection, is the leading cause of hospitalisation and death among children and adults in some re-gions of asian and Latin amer-ican countries. Currently, there is no vaccine to protect against dengue fever.

If infected with DF many times adults are likely to devel-op Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) that can lead to internal bleeding and eventually, death. Like DF, DHF has no vaccina-tion and treatment requires rehy-dration, rest and paracetamol.

according to the MoHS a total of 13,086 cases were report-ed in 2014 and 20,255 in 2013.

The World Health Organi-sation’s study indicates that 3m people, around the world, were infected with DF in 2013 alone, 12,500 of whom died.—Zar Zar

Dengue fever survey to be conducted

a local NGO has launched it’s yearly campaign to remove and destroy unsafe food be-ing sold near basic education schools in Taungdwingyi, a town located in Magwe Re-gion, this academic year.

“In cooperation with local teachers, the team has carried out food safety management procedures in government schools starti ng this academic year,” said Dr. Kyaw Swe, a dentist from the team.

During its inspection tours to schools, the team found that many dyed food, expired food and food covered with fungi.

Dr. Kyaw Swe added, “The majority of snacks at schools are illegally import-ed from China and some local snacks are produced with the use of cheap chemical dyes.”

“We bought all of un-safe food from the sellers at a whole price. We then de-stroyed them.”

Informative talks were held at schools in the regions for merchants to understand the implications of unsafe food and the health benefits of

healthy, unprocessed foods.The first step is to destroy

expired foodstuff unfit for consumption and then alert merchants to signs and infor-mation like certain ingredients and urging them to choose food that provides complete nutritional information for consumers in Myanmar lan-guage.

This is the fourth year the team has carried out the pro-gramme in Taungdwingyi said entrepreneur u aung Kyaw Kyaw, who currently serves as a head of the campaign.

The group also is hoping that Myanmar food manufac-turers include their address and phone numbers, produc-tion and expiry dates on the package, as well as supplying ingredients and chemical in-gredients on ready-made food packaging.

“We have put more effort to take action against produc-ers who do not provide neces-sary information to consumers under the existing law,” said U aung Kyaw Kyaw.—Soe Soe Yu

Campaign aims tokeep kids healthy

Eastern Command Commander presenting cash to the girl student. Photo: C-in-C’s offiCe

DePuTY Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Command-er-in-Chief (army) Vice-Sen-ior General Soe Win, who is currently in France attended the opening of eurosatory 2016 exhibition in Paris on 13 June.

Before the opening cere-mony, Vice Senior General Soe Win visited the booth of Nexter Group and a600.

eurosatory 2016, which is slated from 13 to 17 June, was opened with the opening address by Mr Collet Billon, on behalf of

France Defence Minister Jean-Yves Drian.

after the opening cere-mony, the Deputy Command-er-in-Chief of Defence Services visited booths of CNIM Group, DCI Group, Air Bus Compa-ny.— Myawady

Vice Senior General Soe Winvisits Eurosatory 2016 in Paris

THe Sagaing Region Police Force seized more than K 2 billion worth narcotic drugs in a number of raids after the sei-zure of 61.5 kilograms of pseu-doephedrine during a routine vehicle check at Kantalu Toll-gate in the region on Tuesday.

according to further in-vestigations, the police raid-ed the homes of suspects in aungmyay Thasan and Pyigyi Tagun Township in Mandalay Region and seized a record haul of narcotic drugs worth

more than K2 billion. Police Major Nyan Thaung

said that Sagaing Region Po-lice Force’s 100-days has seen several seizures of narcotic drugs.

according to the police, a seizure of drugs with an es-timated value of K36.9 billion at a home in Pyigyi Tagun Township, Mandalay on 6 March was connected with the country’s largest drug seizure in Yangon last year.— Aung Thant Khaing

Sagaing Police seizemore than K 2 billiondrug haul

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News iN BriefNews iN Brief

france will see further terror attacks: PMParis — France is doing all it can to prevent terrorist attacks but there will be more of them, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday following this week’s murder of a policeman and his wife by a Frenchman who pledged allegiance to islamic state.

Valls said the intelligence and police services had foiled 15 at-tacks since 2013 and were waging a non-stop battle to track down would be terrorists. “We need to tighten the net and give police and intelligence services all the means they need, but we will witness further attacks,” he said on France inter radio.

“More innocents will lose their lives,” he said.—Reuters

Brexit campaign sends flotilla along the river ThamesLONDON — Brexit campaigners sent a flotilla of fishing boats up the River Thames on Wednesday decked in colourful flags and an-ti-EU banners, in an eye-catching effort to galvanise support a week before Britons vote in a referendum on EU membership.

“Let’s put the Great back into Britain. Vote Out and be Great Britain again,” read a sign on one of the boats which were passing some of London’s most historic sights including Tower Bridge and the Houses of Parliament.

Other boats in the flotilla flew the British and English flags with signs bearing messages such as “save Our Country” as polls show growing support for the campaign to quit the EU ahead of the 23 June vote. The leader of the anti-EU UKiP party Nigel Farage joined one boat, highlighting what the Brexit campaign argue is the damage being down to Britain’s fishing industry by European Un-ion quotas.

But in a sign of the passions surrounding the impending vote, musician Bob Geldof joined a rival boat of “remain” supporters who held up pro-EU banners in protest at the flotilla while others draped “in” banners from Tower Bridge and the riverbank.—Reuters

Belgian police alerted to IS fighters en route to europeBrUssELs — Belgian police have received an anti-terror alert warning that a group of Islamic State fighters recently left Syria en route for Europe planning attacks in Belgium and France, a security source said on Wednesday.

The Belgian crisis centre in charge or coordinating security re-sponses said that an alert had been circulated to all police forces in the country but there were no immediate plans to raise the security level to the maximum that would indicate an imminent threat of an attack. Newspaper DH quoted the alert from Belgium’s anti-terror cell as saying the group “left syria about a week and a half ago to reach Europe via Turkey and Greece by boat without passports”, without giving an exact departure date.—Reuters

NATO says Ukraine ceasefire barely holding, scolds russiaBRUSSELS—An internationally-agreed ceasefire in Ukraine is be-ing violated by russia “again and again”, NaTO’s chief said on Wednesday.

NaTO secretary-General Jens stoltenberg also criticised new russian snap military checks on combat readiness, saying they un-dermined stability.

“The ceasefire is violated again and again, and this is of great concern,” stoltenberg told a news conference following a meeting about Ukraine with NaTO defence ministers. “russia supports the separatists ... with equipment, with weapons. They also mass troops along the Ukrainian border,” he said.

European Union leaders must decide this month whether to ex-tend sanctions on russia over the crisis. —Reuters

China defends its naval ship’s entrance into Japanese watersBEiJiNG — China on Wednesday defended its naval vessel’s en-trance into Japanese territorial waters, saying it was an “innocent passage” in line with international conventions.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang made the comment dur-ing a regular press briefing and warned Japan not to play up the situation.

Japanese patrol aircraft spotted the Chinese spy vessel sailing in the territorial waters off an island in the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima around 3:30am Wednesday, officials said, adding that it left the waters after about 90 minutes.—Kyodo News

Clinton wins DC primary, has ‘positive’ meeting with sanders

WasHiNGTON — Hillary Clinton formally concluded the Us Democratic presidential race on Tuesday with a win in the District of Columbia primary, then turned her focus to uniting the party during a 90-minute pri-vate meeting with defeated rival Bernie sanders.

Clinton, who secured enough delegates to clinch the nomination last week, met with sanders in a downtown Washington hotel as the some-times bitter primary combatants searched for common ground ahead of the 8 November elec-tion against presumptive repub-lican nominee Donald Trump.

sanders has resisted pres-sure to bow out and endorse Clinton in a show of party unity, choosing to continue his cam-paign as leverage to win con-cessions from Clinton on his policy agenda and reforms to the Democratic Party nominating process.

Both camps described the meeting as “positive” and said the two noted their shared com-mitment to stopping Trump and pursuing issues such as raising the minimum wage, eliminating undisclosed money in politics, making college affordable and making healthcare coverage more accessible.

sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said the meeting was “a positive discussion about how best to bring more people into the political process and about the dangerous threat that Donald Trump poses to our nation.”

also attending were sand-

ers’ wife Jane, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and the two campaign managers, Jeff Weaver for sanders and robby Mook for Clinton.

sanders had promised to stay in the Democratic race un-til the final vote was cast in the Washington, DC, primary, al-though in the past week he has stopped talking about capturing the party’s nomination and in-stead focused on ways to ad-vance his policy goals.

He scheduled a national video address to supporters on Thursday night, telling them in an email message that “the polit-ical revolution continues.”

at a news conference before the Washington meeting, sand-ers said he would also demand changes to make the Democrat-ic nominating process more eq-uitable, including replacing the Democratic National Committee leadership, letting independents take part in the voting and elim-inating superdelegates, who are unelected and are free to support any candidate.

“The time is long overdue for a fundamental transforma-tion of the Democratic Party,” sanders said.

Clinton easily beat sand-ers in the District of Columbia, winning 79 per cent to his 21 per cent in a primary that closed the more than four-month, state-by-state battle for the Democratic nomination that began on 1 Feb-ruary in iowa.

During a visit to Capitol Hill earlier on Tuesday, sanders told Democratic senators he would

take his message of progressive values and party reform to the convention.

“i’m open to that, i think we should all be open to that,” senator Dick Durbin of illinois told reporters afterward. “it’s not a surprise that the american people are skeptical of all of us in political life. and we ought to step back and reassess why, and what we can do about it.”

Top Democrats have taken steps in the last week to begin rallying behind Clinton and ease sanders out of the race without alienating his supporters.

President Barack Obama endorsed Clinton on Thursday, hours after meeting with sanders at the White House. Clinton also secured the endorsement of sen-ator Elizabeth Warren of Massa-chusetts, a leader of the party’s progressive wing.

Clinton already has turned her attention on the campaign trail to the race with Trump, re-jecting the New York business-man’s renewed calls for a ban of the entry of foreign-born Mus-lims into the United states after the mass shooting at a gay club in Orlando, Florida, by an amer-ican man who claimed allegiance with islamic state militants.

“i have clearly said that we faced terrorist enemies who use a perverted version of islam to justify slaughtering innocent people. We have to stop them, and we will,” Clinton said in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday. “But i will not de-monize and declare war on an entire religion.”—Reuters

Democratic Us presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (L) listens to senator Bernie sanders speak during a Democratic debate hosted by CNN and New York One at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York on 14 April, 2016. Photo: ReuteRs

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Smoke rises from Manbij city, Aleppo province, Syria on 8 June 2016. Photo: ReuteRs

Pakistan fires heavy artillery at Afghan forces on Khyber Pass borderPESHAWAR, (Pakistan) — Pakistani troops fired heavy ar-tillery at Afghan forces at their main Khyber Pass border cross-ing on Wednesday, the Pakistani military said, an escalation after days of clashes that have killed four people and stranded thou-sands on both sides.

Relations between the US allies have never been close but have been strained over the past 15 years by Afghan accusations that Pakistan supports the Talib-an who are fighting to unseat the US-backed government in Kabul.

Pakistan denies that.The countries have blamed

each other for the fighting that broke out on Sunday at the main crossing point between them over the construction of a new border post on the Pakistani side.

“When our people began construction work on the gate on Wednesday, Afghan forces again opened fire at our troops and construction workers,” said a Pakistani security official who declined to be identified.

He said Pakistan had retali-ated with long-range artillery and mortars. There was no word on any casualties.

The Pakistani military spokesman’s office confirmed the

Wednesday fighting.Afghan officials, however,

denied any fighting on Wednes-day, but said an Afghan border guard was killed and five were wounded overnight on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear if the officials were talking about the same incident.

Pakistan’s Foreign Office summoned the Afghan ambassa-dor to demand that Afghanistan put an end to the “unprovoked firing” and to protest against the death of a Pakistani army major, shot on the border in a clash this week.

The US State Department on

Tuesday urged “a calm resolution to the tension”.

Pakistan says the border gate it is building is well on its side of the border and it will help stop militants from crossing and help fight drug trafficking.

Pakistan’s foreign policy chief, Sartaj Aziz, expressed con-cern over what he called the Af-ghan army’s attempts to “disrupt border management efforts” by Pakistan.

Afghanistan objects to all Pakistani construction on a 2,200-km (1,370-mile) border it says was unfairly imposed by British colonialists in the 19th

century and which it has never recognised.

Relations between Paki-stan and Afghanistan have been particularly strained in recent months over Afghan anger with what it sees as insincere efforts by Pakistan to help with peace talks between the Afghan gov-ernment and the Taliban.

Afghan officials say Paki-stan backs the Taliban as a tool to limit the influence of its old rival, India, in Afghanistan. Paki-stan says it is trying to encourage the Taliban to talk to the Kabul government but has limited sway over the militants.—Reuters

Iran’s top leader threatens to ‘burn’ nuclear deal if US reneges

Damascus says German special forces in Syria, Germany deniesBEIRUT — The Syrian government said on Wednesday that German special forces were present, alongside French and American military personnel, in northern Syria, an accusation denied by Germany.

Syrian state media said the government strongly con-demned the presence of French and German forces in Ain al-Ar-ab, also known as Kobani, and Manbij.

“Syria ... considers it ex-plicit and unjustified aggression towards (Syria’s) sovereignty and independence,” state news agency SANA quoted the for-eign ministry as saying.

The US-backed Syria Dem-ocratic Forces (SDF) are stag-ing an offensive against Islamic State near Manbij, while Kobani is under the control of the Syri-an Kurdish YPG militia, part of the SDF.

Germany’s defence minis-try said repeated claims by the Syrian government that German special forces were in northern Syria were not and had never been true.

“There are no German spe-cial forces in Syria. The accusa-tion is false,” a ministry spokes-man said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,

which monitors the Syrian civil war now in its sixth year, said French special forces were building a base for themselves near Kobani.

France’s defence minister said last week that there were special forces operating in Syr-ia helping the SDF advance to-wards Manbij.

The Observatory also said German, French and American military advisers, and French and American special forces, were assisting the SDF in its fight against Islamic State but had so far remained in a sup-port role and not fought on front lines. —Reuters

TEHRAN — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday threatened to “burn” the nuclear deal reached last year with world powers if the United States reneges on it, as presump-tive Republican presidential can-didate Donald Trump has vowed to do if he wins next Novem-ber’s election.

Khamenei, speaking in a meeting with high-ranking gov-ernment officials and military brass on the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, said the Iran side will not be the first to violate the landmark deal reached last year with six major world pow-ers — France, Britain, Russia, Germany, China and the United States — to limit its nuclear ac-tivities in return for the lifting of sanctions.

“But if the opposite side vi-olates it, as the US presidential candidates are threatening to rip it apart, we will burn it,” he was quoted as saying by official me-dia and on his website.

He did not name any par-ticular candidate but said he does not see any difference between Democrats and Republicans.

Trump has stated on the campaign trail that if elected, his “number one priority” as presi-dent would be to “dismantle the

disastrous deal with Iran.”By contrast, Democratic

presidential candidate Hillary Clinton supports the landmark deal, saying in a foreign policy speech last Thursday that the West is “safer now than we were before this agreement.”

In any case, she warned, “the United States will act de-cisively if necessary, including with military action, to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.”

Khamenei challenged mod-erate President Rouhani’s policy of detente and compromise with the West, saying, “Some think that we can get along with the US and solve problems...This is an unrealistic idea and an illu-sion.” The United States severed diplomatic relations with Iran in 1980 after revolutionary stu-dents took over the US Embassy in Tehran and held diplomats as hostages for 444 days.

Khamenei accused the Unit-ed States of not fulfilling its obli-gations under the nuclear deal to lift crippling economic sanctions against Iran.

“They have not kept their word about lifting sanctions and sanctions are not lifted practical-ly. Also the money we have in other countries has not returned yet,” he said.—Kyodo News

Ten IS militants killed by Turkey shelling in northern SyriaANKARA — Ten Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Tuesday in shelling in northern Syria by the Turkish army and air operations from the US-led coalition, security sources told Anadolu Agency on Wednes-day.

Turkish artillery units shelled on Tuesday 17 IS targets as coalition warplanes conduct-

ed air operations in the region, security sources said.

Reports showed that 10 IS militants were killed, with Katyusha rockets and mortar guns belonging to IS destroyed.

Since mid-January, the IS has been targeting towns and cities in southern Turkey with rocket fire, killing and injuring many civilians.—Xinhua

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Wife of Orlando shooter knew of attack, could soon be charged

A sign is pictured in front of a house across the street from Omar Mateen’s home in Port Saint Lucie, Florida, US, on 14 June 2016. Photo: ReuteRs

ORLANDO (Fla.) / WASHINGTON — The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay night-club knew of his plans for the at-tack and could soon be charged in connection with the deadliest mass shooting in modern US his-tory, a law enforcement source said on Tuesday.

The source told Reuters that a federal grand jury had been convened and could charge Omar Mateen’s wife, Noor Salman, as early as Wednesday.

“It appears she had some knowledge of what was going on,” said US Senator Angus King, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which received a briefing on the attack on Tuesday.

“She definitely is, I guess you would say, a person of inter-est right now and appears to be cooperating and can provide us with some important informa-tion,” King told CNN.

Mateen, who was shot dead by police after a three-hour stand-off at the Pulse club early on Sun-day, called 911 during his shoot-ing spree to profess allegiance to various militant Islamist groups.

Federal investigators have said he was likely self-radical-ised and there was no evidence that he received any instructions or aid from outside groups such as Islamic State. Mateen, 29, was a US citizen, born in New York of Afghan immigrant parents.

“He appears to have been an angry, disturbed, unstable young man who became radicalised,” President Barack Obama told re-porters.

Mateen, who was a securi-ty guard, was systematic during his rampage, working his way

through the packed club shooting people who were already down. He apparently wanted to ensure they were dead, said Angel Co-lon, a wounded survivor.

“I look over and he shoots the girl next to me and I was just there laying down and thinking: ‘I’m next, I’m dead,’” he said.

Mateen shot him twice more, one bullet apparently aimed for Colon’s head striking his hand, and another hitting his hip, Colon said at Orlando Regional Medi-cal Center, where he is one of 27 survivors being treated.

FoxNews.com, citing an FBI source, said prosecutors were seeking to charge Mateen’s wife as an accessory to 49 counts of murder and 53 counts of attempt-ed murder and failure to notify law enforcement about the pend-ing attack and lying to federal agents.

NBC News said Salman told federal agents she tried to talk her husband out of carrying out the attack. But she also told the FBI she once drove him to the Pulse nightclub because he wanted to scope it out, the network said.

Salman’s mother, Ekbal Zahi Salman, lives in a mid-dle-class neighbourhood of the suburban town of Rodeo, Cal-ifornia. A neighbour said Noor Salman only visited her mother once after she married Mateen.

Noor Salman’s mother “didn’t like him very much. He didn’t allow her (Noor) to come here,” said neighbour Rajinder Chahal. He said he had spoken to Noor Salman’s mother after the Orlando attack. “She was crying, weeping.”

Obama denounced Don-ald Trump for his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United

States, joining fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton in portraying the Republican presidential candi-date as unfit for the White House.

Since the shooting, Trump criticised Obama for not using the term “radical Islamic terror-ism” to describe violent Islamist militants.

“What exactly would us-ing this label accomplish, what exactly would it change?” Oba-ma replied. “Someone seriously thinks we don’t know who we’re fighting? ... There’s no magic to the phrase ‘radical Islam.’ It’s a political talking point. It is not a strategy.”

Mateen made 911 calls from the club in which he pledged loy-alty to the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whose organisation controls parts of Iraq and Syria.

He also claimed solidarity with the ethnic Chechen brothers who carried out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and with a Palestinian-American who be-came a suicide bomber in Syria for al Qaeda offshoot the Nusra

Front, authorities said.“We could hear him talk-

ing to 911 saying that the reason why he’s doing this is because he wants America to stop bombing his country. From that conver-sation from 911 he pledges al-legiance to ISIS,” said Patience Carter, 20, who was trapped in a bathroom stall at the nightclub as Mateen prowled outside.

Carter, from Philadelphia, read a poem to the media that she said she wrote to help her heal.

“Looking at the blood and debris covered on everyone’s faces. Looking at the gunman’s feet under the stall as he paces. The guilt of feeling lucky to be alive is heavy,” the poem read.

US officials were investigat-ing media reports that Mateen may have been gay but not open-ly so, and questioning whether that could have driven his attack, according to two people who have been briefed on the investi-gation and requested anonymity to discuss it.

A former wife of Mateen, Si-tora Yusufiy, said her ex-husband

had facets of his life that he did not share with his family, such as drinking and going to night clubs.

“He did have a different side to him that he could not open up to his father about,” Yusufiy told CNN.

She has previously said he was mentally unstable and beat her and that she fled their home after four months of marriage.

The owner of Pulse, speak-ing through a representative, denied reports that Mateen had been a regular patron.

“Untrue and totally ridicu-lous,” Sara Brady, a spokeswom-an for club owner Barbara Poma, said in an email when asked about the claim.

Mateen’s father, Seddique Mateen, indicated soon after the attack that his son had harbored strong anti-gay feelings and on Tuesday he told reporters his son had never mentioned being ho-mosexual.

“I don’t believe he was a whatever you call it,” he said.—Reuters

French killer’s Facebook broadcast underscores live video challengesSAN FRANCISCO — After Larossi Abballa killed a French police commander and the com-mander’s partner on Tuesday, he took to Facebook Live to encour-age viewers in a 12-minute video to follow his example: Kill pris-on staff, police officials, journal-ists, lawmakers.

The incident underscores the immense challenges companies such as Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Google’s YouTube face as they push live video streaming to hundreds of millions of peo-ple.

Facebook in recent months has made its Live feature — which allows anyone to broad-cast a video in real time — a cen-tral component of its strategy.

Twitter, similarly, is focused on live content, and online video

leader YouTube is also moving into live streaming.

All the companies have pro-tocols in place to remove content that violates their terms of ser-vice, mainly by asking users to report offending material for re-view. But the companies gener-ally promise a turnaround time of 24 hours on such reports, while live videos would have to be re-viewed and removed in minutes to prevent wide dissemination.

“We do understand and rec-ognise that there are unique chal-lenges when it comes to content and safety for Live videos,” a Facebook spokeswoman said. “We’re deeply committed to im-proving the effectiveness of how we handle reports of live content that violates our Community Standards.”

Facebook is not the first company to grapple with abuse of live video. In April, an 18-year-old woman was charged after she livestreamed her friend’s rape on Twitter’s Periscope. In May, a young woman in France recorded herself on Periscope as she threw herself under a train.

“Making these decisions for live video broadcasts is even more challenging,” said Aaron Altschuler, a lawyer at ZwillGen and former associate general counsel for global law enforcement and security at Ya-hoo. “Companies already face difficult content takedown de-cisions related to other types of user-generated content.”

Twitter did not respond to requests for comment.

YouTube said it has teams

around the world that review reported videos 24 hours a day, adding that it will terminate an account when it has reasonable belief that the person behind it is part of group that the US govern-ment has identified as a “foreign terrorist organisation.”

Facebook, which receives millions of reports a week of standards violations, said it re-views the vast majority within 24 hours. It said it is expanding a team dedicated to reviewing live content and staffing it 24 hours a day. Facebook can interrupt and remove broadcasts that violate policy.

The company said it is also testing the monitoring of broad-casts that go viral or are trend-ing even before they are report-ed. That could give Facebook a

way to stop offending broadcasts quickly, just as a television net-work might.

But as of yet there are no automated tools that can identify live videos that should be taken down, people familiar with the technology said.

Abballa, 25, told police ne-gotiators he had answered an ap-peal by Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “to kill infidels at home with their families,” Par-is prosecutor Francois Molins said at a news conference.

During the Facebook Live broadcast, Abballa spoke most-ly in French and occasionally in Arabic. Although the video was quickly removed from Facebook, Islamic State shared an edited version through several of its channels.—Reuters

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